User:Weasel

1933-1945 - 6 million dead whose crime it was to differ - Lest we forget

Some utterly useless trivia about myself:

My name is Max.

I'm from Berlin.

For North Americans I am a Liberal. However, Phil Ochs has shown that there is no such thing as a left-wing liberal (Love Me I'm A Liberal). The term is almost always associated with businesspeople in Europe. I am not a businessman, neither do I plan to ever become one. Additionally, I'm not against taxes at all. I believe that businesspeople will rapidly become a thing of the past as the internet trend against fees and towards free content community funded projects in the Wikipedia style changes capitalism forever. I think by doing this we are trailblazers for the future!

For Europeans I am a Socialist. That would be more precise a characterization, but Socialism was just supposed to be a transient state (and isn't financially supportable within a nation state system forever, either) and isn't designed for eternity. From this we gather:

I am neither. Not even a commie pig. Not even much of an anarchist (too pessimistic about people in general). Rather a non-excited hippie of the Why Can't We All Just Get Along sort and fervently pro-multiculturalism. I deeply despise and try to fight racism and xenophobia as well as revisionism. I don't believe in conspiracies. I'm a believer too, but as for self-appointed earthly substitutes I have a tendency to go along with Hannah Arendt who said: "Nobody has the right to obey"

My fields of fondness (I possess expertise in only few of them) are (in no particular order):

• Geography and politics of the obscurer parts of the world
• The Arab-Israeli conflict
• Civil aviation and ATC
• The German language as well as Linguistics in general
• Arab mood swings and sentiments
• Chess
• Wheelchair Tennis
• current events in the states that once formed the Soviet Union, especially Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
• Grammar
• Cycling and especially the Tour de France
• Snooker
• the political leanings of the U.S. states
• consequently the Electoral College and swing states
• finding out just why economic isolationism wouldn't work in the US (Of course, every inch of my being tells me it would be catastrophic for them too (let alone for us), but I still need to find out just why
• the reasons for racism and injustice
• disabled people in society (yup, count me too!)
• William Shakespeare
• Harry Potter
• Punk
• Logic
• Tapirs
• the GDR and its remains

Folks that put their stamps on me:

• Desmond Tutu
• Kurt Tucholsky
• Georg Büchner
• Willy Brandt
• Heinrich Heine
• Bertolt Brecht
• Jesus (I'm not a Christian)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (alas...)
• Martin Luther King
• the people who worked at Ground Zero non-stop for days without even asking for a thank you.
• Bob Dylan
• Charlie Parker
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Vincent van Gogh
• Rembrandt

I'm not as prolific as I probably ought to be. I hope though that my contributions will be helpful.

P.S.: The most fitting label would probably be: typical Guardian reader, though I have done that only twice in my life, once in Wandsworth (or possibly Battersea) and once in Nice.